Period of Adjustment

Period of Adjustment (subtitled High Point is Built Over a Cavern) is a 1960 play by Tennessee Williams that was adapted in the film version of 1962.

Both the stage and film versions are set on Christmas Eve and tell the gentle, light-hearted story of two couples, one newlywed and the other married for five years, both experiencing pains and difficulties in their relationships.

"[2] Williams responded to the criticism by writing Period of Adjustment and arguing, in a piece that was published in The New York Times, The theatre has made its greatest artistic advance through the unlocking and lighting up and ventilation of the closets, attics, and basements of human behaviour and experience.

No significant area of human experience should be held inaccessible, provided it is presented with honest intention and taste, to the writers of our desperate time.

The original cast in order of appearance was:[3] In February 2006, the play was revived at the Almeida Theatre in London.